The Department of War released a single PDF on May 8, 2026, that contains a U.S. military mission report from Syria. The document describes an operator watching a Full-Motion Video feed and seeing a “misshapen and uneven ball of white light.”
The report is dated October 20, 2024. It was declassified by Major General Richard A. Harrison, USCENTCOM Chief of Staff, on October 24, 2025. That is a gap of one year and four days between the sighting and the declassification order.
The form used is a standardized Military Mission Report, or MISREP. The Department of War’s official description states these forms are often used to report Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, known as AARO. The document’s title is “DOW-UAP-D32, Mission Report, Syria, October 2024.”
The mission was an Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance flight. It was flown by the 12th Special Operations Squadron, which falls under the 27th Special Operations Wing. The operation was part of Operation INHERENT RESOLVE. The aircraft took off from a base coded “OJMS.” The aircraft’s callsign is redacted in the released document.
The operator conducted FMV and signals intelligence collection at multiple grid coordinates over Syria. At 1559Z, which is 3:59 PM UTC, the operator observed an unidentified aerial phenomenon. The narrative section of the report states this plainly.
The Department of War’s summary adds a specific description. The operator saw a “misshapen and uneven ball of white light.” The summary says there were multiple “glares or light” emanating from an “unknown origin.”
The PDF itself is 0.6 MB. The browser viewing it shows a note that the PDF viewer is unavailable, requiring a download to read the full form. The public release was made under the PURSUE archive.
This is not a video. It is a form filled out by an operator. It is a record of what one person saw through a camera feed. The form is a standard military document used to log operational circumstances. The Department of War explicitly connects these forms to UAP reporting to AARO.
The location is Syria. The date is October 2024. The unit is a Special Operations squadron. The mission was ISR. The time is logged precisely. The description is specific: a ball of white light, misshapen and uneven, with glares from an unknown source.
Major General Harrison signed the declassification. The release happened on May 8, 2026. The document is now public. It exists as a single PDF file.
The report does not identify the operator by name. It does not state what happened after the sighting. It does not offer an explanation. It is a record of an observation made during a combat support mission. That observation was filed, classified, then declassified, then released.
The light was white. It was not a perfect sphere. It had multiple points of light coming off it. The origin of those points of light is unknown. The operator recorded it through a Full-Motion Video feed. The feed was part of the aircraft’s sensor package.
This is the raw material of the UAP reporting system. A form. A time. A grid coordinate. A description. A declassification stamp. A release to the public under a named archive. The document is the story.
